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That's simple. The Windows Kernel is a collection of mostly elegant solutions, with a strong peppering of backwards-compatibility cruft, all the way from NT3 to
by wongarsu 7d ago
That's simple. The Windows Kernel is a collection of mostly elegant solutions, with a strong peppering of backwards-compatibility cruft, all the way from NT3 to Windows 11. The Windows userland received a lot of effort until about Windows XP, and since then is a collection of subpar programming, half-finished projects and user-hostile patterns (with some notable exceptions)
Different teams with different goals and different management
- Sohcahtoa82 7d ago> Different teams with different goals and different management Not to mention the stack ranking policies that caused engineers to sabotage other people's work and avoid collaboration in order to keep themselves high on the stack in order to avoid being fired.